Manufactured Engagement When Social Proof Becomes Social Fiction Issue 263, May 7, 2026 In the previous issue and the Artificial Understanding series, I described the comprehension gap and the circular system in which our behavioral data feeds AI systems that shape our behavior without our conscious understanding. I closed the series with a warning about what happens when fabricated behavioral data is injected back into the same algorithmic systems that govern what we see. This fabrication, which I explain later…

Artificial Understanding What Feeds the Machine and What It Means for All of Us Part Three of a Three-Part Series Issue 262, April 30, 2026 Over the past two weeks, this series has examined the comprehension gap that defines our relationship with artificial intelligence. In Part One, I explored how executives are making consequential decisions about AI systems they do not fully understand, creating organizational risk that grows in proportion to the gap between capability and comprehension. In Part Two,…

Artificial Understanding The Human Cost of the Comprehension Gap Part Two of a Three-Part Series Issue 261, April 23, 2026 Last week, in Part One of this series, I examined the comprehension gap that separates what artificial intelligence can do from what the people deploying it actually understand. That piece focused on the boardroom, on the executives making consequential decisions about technology they have not taken the time to genuinely comprehend. The responses I received confirmed what I suspected: the…

Artificial Understanding The Intelligence We Built and the Comprehension We Didn’t Part One of a Three-Part Series Issue 260, April 16, 2026 I attended a virtual event last week that was constructed around consideration and discussion of AI twins for CEOs and C-level executives. The technology discussion was impressive; there are so many options. I geeked out on the framework, policy and procedure points and where progress is happening as we continue to run instead of walk. It was a…

Spring Renewal 2026 Redefining Ourselves in a Season of Disruption Issue 259, April 9, 2026 Spring has always carried a particular kind of promise. The natural world begins again. Light returns. Something dormant wakes up. And for as long as I have been writing this newsletter, I have used this season to pause, look back across the body of work we have built together, and ask a simple question: what do we need to revisit? This year, that question carries…

Organizational Memory Loss Why Learning Doesn’t Stick Issue 258, April 2, 2026 A senior leader at a client I work with told me something recently that has stayed with me. Her organization had just completed a major strategic initiative, the third of its kind in four years, and by most measures it had gone reasonably well. On time. On budget. Acceptable progress to date. But when she pulled up the reports from the previous two initiatives, she found something that…